WFT Team President Reveals Thoughts On Working For Snyder

Washington Football Team president Jason Wright offers thoughts on the state of the club, the nickname and Dan Snyder

ASHBURN, Va. -- Dan Snyder has an array of former high-level employees who are not fans of his. Mike Shanahan and Snyder were bitter enemies by the time their four-year divorce was finalized. Kyle Shanahan, same thing. Jay Gruden still has his fastball and blew one right past the unsuspecting Snyder the other day with this gem:

"When it came our time to pick, we’d always talk about the picks, where we’d like to go, what happens if [the player] is gone, and did all our scenarios. 

"And then [Snyder] would come in off his yacht and make the pick.”

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But the franchise has undergone change. Ron Rivera has all the juice on the football side. And Jason Wright, the still relatively new president of the organization, has essentially that same level of command on the business side.

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Wright sat down at FedExField with AXIOS on HBO recently and detailed thoughts on Snyder.

.@JimVandeHei: “With Donald Trump gone, you probably work for the most despised man in Washington, Daniel Snyder...Why do you think people seem to hate him so much?”

Team president @whoisjwright: “I don't know. My experience with Dan has been incredibly positive.” #AxiosOnHBO pic.twitter.com/ouwJk7OIs2

— Axios (@axios) January 31, 2021

Wright also touched on the controversial old nickname ...

.@JimVandeHei: “Did you consider the Redskin name racist?”

.@WashingtonNFL president @whoisjwright to #AxiosOnHBO: “I had the analogies in my head of what it would be for me as a Black person...I found out that the debate of folks closer to it was much more nuanced than that.” pic.twitter.com/hsUigKUHNJ

— Axios (@axios) February 1, 2021

And talked about some of the challenges in the NFL that go far beyond the playing field. ...

The Washington Football Team is in better shape than it was when Wright arrived in August and in way better shape than when Rivera arrived 13 months ago. There's a long way to go, in our opinion, toward making team headquarters a place run in a safe and sensible way. But Wright and Rivera are doing so. And listening to Wright, it seems Snyder is allowing them to do so.